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EXERCISE 9 OF 45
Fill at bar 5
64 / 109 BARS COVERED
0 / 45 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART B
PART B
PART D
PART G
PART D
CHORUS
PART S
PART V
PART W
OUTRO 2
10 groovesNGDBS+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 11
LINK · 3
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Surfs Up Goths on drums

109 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 2:39 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
2:39
DIFFICULTY
79/100

hi-hat through bars 2-5, snare through bars 6-31, kick and crashes through bars 32-33, snare through bars 34-35, silence through bars 36-37 and snare through bars 38-63, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-9, 17-18 and 21-22, and 5 more places -- 17.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    6
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
Surfs Up Goths -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 5, 10, 11, 15, 70, 71 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- D, N -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through Part G and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 2-15 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part G and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 24-45 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part S -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 60-73 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Surfs Up Goths?

165 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Surfs Up Goths hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

109 bars, about 2:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Surfs Up Goths?

6 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 5, 10, 11, 15, 70, 71 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 109 BARS ANALYSED